A team at Northwestern University has fabricated artificial neurons by printing them onto flexible plastic, and the tiny ...

Brain function has traditionally been interpreted within a neuron-centric framework; however, this view has shifted toward a model of neuron-glia ...

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain - they talk to it.

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain—they talk to it. In a new ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are coming ever closer to uncovering the neural circuitry that translates stimulus to action, ...

Inhibitory "stop" neurons are actually responsible for driving the rhythmic limb movements of fruit flies through a unique ...

Olfactory fear conditioning biases olfactory stem cell receptor fate, increasing the frequency by which maturing neurons express the receptor of the paired odor and changing the representation of the ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are coming ever closer to uncovering the neural circuitry that translates stimulus to action, shining light on previously unseen neural connections and lesser-known ...

Is parallel visual processing a myth? A new study reveals that bipolar cells in the retina use electrical synapses to ...

A new Yale School of Medicine (YSM) study has uncovered surprising new details about how our eyes process what we see. When ...

Every organism must be able to respond to stimuli in its environment, but when animal sizes strain the limits of neuron ...